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Old Fri Dec 23, 2011, 03:02pm
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Originally Posted by just another ref View Post
I think we know what you are saying, but a part of the earlier confusion was about what made the ball dead, the whistle or the horn.
I wasn't addressing just the OP. I was addressing Toren's earlier reply, pasted below. He was of the opinion that a whistle causes a shot in flight to become dead.

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Originally Posted by Toren
The Horn doesn't make the ball dead, the whistle makes the ball dead. So if the officials blew their whistles while the ball was in flight, that was on the officiating crew.
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